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harashaharasha Posts: 3,079 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Some token manufacturer was selling on both sides of the border.

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    SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,481 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice catch.
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    pruebaspruebas Posts: 4,326 ✭✭✭✭✭
    American Banknote Company and it's predecessors also did this with vignettes on banknotes. Often vignettes used had no bearing on the region in which they were re-used. For example, a leopard on a Banco de Nuevo Leon (Mexico) note.

    The leopard was engraved much earlier either for stock or for a particular issue back then, and reused when a custom vignette wasn't wanted or paid for by the contracting bank.
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,215 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice pairing. Quite interesting. I like the Indiana piece, despite the heavy wear. It has character, somehow. I wonder if it was somebody's pocket piece for a while.

    Are those aluminum, or silver?

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    harashaharasha Posts: 3,079 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They appear to be aluminum. Offhand, the only other lightweight metal I have seen in a numismatic item is a magnesium alloy. And that was a medal.
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